| bc on Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:08:01 +0100 (CET) |
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and a second note of clarification:
i have been needing to write something (for about 9 months)
about U.S. foreign (and domestic) policy, which is centrist,
but not soft, in its analysis of events.
it takes into account the roles of states beyond the perogative
of the United States (of America), and posits the question of
how things can be peacefull resolved if moving in the direction
and with the dynamics at hand. how to take rubble and make
architecture, in a humane redesign of the sitation: building it.
this analysis would have included addressing issues related to
and also including potential perspectives of:
- ordinary peoples in various areas
- people in institutuions of power
- governments and industry
- China
- Russia
- Non-Opec nation-states
- Opec nation-states
- Saudi Arabia in particular
- Israel and Palestine
- various forms of government and economics,
including commnunism, democracies, and also
that of capital, and social capital in particular.
- the idea of evolution in terms of difference and-or
mutatation allowing adaptation to changed circumstances
- the role of energy in relation to state power
- peaceful transformation through educational change
- a differentiation between pubilc and private realms,
to recontextualize contentious issues, such as religious
belief, morality, rights.
- a basic proposal for human rights, as the first and major
step in all countries, regardless of governmental structures.
yes, ideal to imagine there does not need to be war, or to be one of
those who thinks their ideology should replace the prior one, that
it all needs to be rebuilt again, but anew. only in part. some things
do work. to be anti- this or pro- that is to be stuck in dialectics
without logical compromise, right and wrong (or right and left).
things have changed. we know more. and we should include more
of the complexity in our analyses, if to be fair and objective. the
world situation is a powder keg. and thanks to whoever is playing
games with me, this small contribution to try to send out to others
who may be able to do more with the same idea, in the sense of may-
be offering an alternative to the precipice of world war, and civilian
world wars, well, it is possible. funny, this was a question i asked
NN but did not state in these terms. and i am not sure of the answer
as afterwords this other thing began unravelling so fast, that there
will be no way i can write this idea, which i have been contemplating
for many many months, trying to find a way to write in an appropriate
and peaceful way about things in a way that might otherwise get one
in a bit of trouble. that is. walking into the ring of fire and surviving.
oh, yes, and whatever antics have been going on, they've been in
correlation to my work with Enron and US Energy Policy, much in
advance of the revelations of deep corruption in that unfortunate
but enlightening event. so, things are not exactly not dangerous
when doing art, architecture, design, for peace and education.
just needed to clarify this as i will not include it in my upcoming post.
but this attempt to try to reframe the situation, well, it was stopped
in its tracks becasue of these other things, which landed me in the E.R.
a pain equivalent to having thumbs going into your eyeballs. and it is
not able to go away. it is stress. all there is to do is take tranquilizers,
and enough to make the pain stop makes my eyes shut and i only sleep.
so i'd like to take this moment to thank those who were so generous
in helping stop change, alternative approaches, open thinking, and
sharing and working together. you have, well, as they say 'big balls',
and that may be part of the problem, as this isn't about that. it is
about human beings working together, in cooperationt to be able to
live and co-exist and sustain, in the long-haul, as a common people
yet with our unique cultural heritages. to peace, but first, this. bc
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